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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 23:02:46 +0100
From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
To: Yue Chen <ycyc321@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to traverse kernel threads?
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 05:54:24PM -0400, Yue Chen wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Is there an easy way to traverse all the kernel threads (including
> modules') in a FreeBSD kernel module?
> The resulting structure would be `` struct thread * ''.
> 

Well if you read kthread_add you can see you just need to traverse
threads linked into proc0.

Chances are you also want to traverse kernel process (see kproc_create).

The real question though is what are you trying to achieve.

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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>